Cash cattle fall while boxed beef surges $7.45 per hundredweight. Futures trade below cash amid volatile outside markets.

With beef cow slaughter down 20% and cull bulls breaking the $200/cwt. barrier, record-heavy steer weights are fueling a surge in demand for lean beef to blend for the spring grilling season.

Lightweight calves and stockers were more than 50% higher in late February than one year ago, with heavy feeder prices up ...

Since President Donald Trump’s comments last week, a lot has been discussed on social media and at the coffee shop about increasing beef imports from Argentina, beef retail prices, the cattle market ...

American beef cow slaughter fell during the fall quarter by 19 percent from the same period in 2024, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released in the wake of the recent federal ...

Large processors argue scale is necessary to keep meat prices affordable.

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. meat producer Tyson Foods Inc said on Friday it will soon discontinue cattle slaughter at its Emporia, Kansas, plant as part of a restructuring because the U.S. cattle ...